Should employers be allowed to discriminate against pregnant women in the name of less regulation? Last week this issue was debated on Fox News.
So, you might be thinking...what year is it? Did I just get beamed back a couple of decades when many women got fired just for showing a little baby bump or even just announcing their pregnancy.
Should employers be allowed to discriminate against pregnant women in the name of less regulation? Last week this issue was debated on Fox News.
So, you might be thinking...what year is it? Did I just get beamed back a couple of decades when many women got fired just for showing a little baby bump or even just announcing their pregnancy.
Why does the reality of everyday, routine care for birthing women diverge so radically from best-evidence practice?
Pediatricians see the problem every day in their offices: so many apparently well babies, so inconsolably fretful; not sleeping well; not feeding well, or feeding too much. So many toddlers whose behavior is out of control: obstinate, hyperactive; real temper tantrum factories. Could it be ADHD? Or bipolar disorder? At such a young age?
Here’s what Hanna Rosin is missing in "The Case Against Breastfeeding": Moms are being urged to breastfeed but set up to fail.
There’s no question among health experts that breastfeeding is best for babies.
In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a feature about men who care for their elderly parents. Nearly 40 percent of men are their family's primary care provider up from 19 percent in 1996, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman -- things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn't. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn't seem to want those same things.
When it was time to travel to China to bring home our little PunditBaby, I was working at a large government agency in a pretty senior position.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives got us one step closer to paid family leave for every working family in the country.
